Shock. Stupefaction. Complete disbelief.
Emily Zane and her two friends stood frozen, faces blank, minds utterly unable to process what had just happened. They had been slapped in the face once already—hard. And now reality had turned around and struck them again, even harder.
How was this possible?
This was real life, not some absurd fantasy.
How could Sarah Lacy’s family—people she had always labeled as worthless—keep escaping disaster at the last possible second? Once might have been luck. Twice was already outrageous. Again and again? That crossed into the territory of the unbelievable.
It made no sense.
It wasn’t logical.
It wasn’t scientific.
Then there was Oscar Ritchson.
His expression had gone completely blank.
Only moments earlier, he had confidently declared that anyon
